Comparison between To Kill a Mockingbird & My Cousin Rachel Essay

Comparison between To Kill a Mockingbird & My Cousin Rachel Essay

Faith can be the core or essence of any relationship, whether it is friendship or love. In To Kill a Mockingbird, faith is lost by injustice. In My Cousin Rachel faith it lost by suspicion and death. Both Jem and Philip learn through the negativity in their life that things are not always what they appear to be.                                                          

Jeremy Atticus Jem Finch is ten years old when the book begins, he acts as Scout’s playmate and protector. He often has a hard time dealing and expressing his feelings, therefore he keeps silent to himself. He is something of a typical American boy, refusing to back down from dares and always thinking about playing football. Jem and Scout both live in a world were they see things as they are, as people present them. They think that Maycomb County is one of the best places to live and that the people there are wonderful.   Through out the novel Atticus, Jem’s father, a lawyer in Maycomb, has thought his children morality, justice and racial equality. So when Atticus agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a black man charged with raping a white woman, Jem is sure that with all the evidence provided Tom Robinson will be said innocent. But during the period of this trial, Jem and Scout go through many trials of their own. At school, everyone calls Atticus a nigger-lover and say that he’s putting his family to disgrace. Especially Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose, an elderly, ill-tempered, racist woman who lives near the Finch’s. Jem and Scout dislike her very much, every time they walk by her house she always shouts at them.   Atticus warns Jem to be a gentleman to her, because she is old and sick , but one day she tells the children that Atticus is not any better than the “niggers and trash he works for,” and Jem loses his temper. Jem takes a baton from Scout and destroys all of Mrs. Dubose’s camellia bushes. As punishment, Jem must go to her house every day for a month and read to her, everyday the...